Name: Zaletti (Polenta Biscuits)
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 30 g (1 oz) pine nuts; 1 egg, plus 1 egg yolk; a pinch of salt; 125 g (4½ oz)unsalted butter; 100 g (3½ oz) sugar; 70 g (2½ oz)sultanas; 150 g (5½ oz/1 cup) fine yellow polenta; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 150 g (5½ oz) cake (00) flour; 2 tablespoons grappa or brandy; 1 teaspoon baking powder

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Venezia

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2008

About

These are lovely tasting & lovely textured, with a good crispness even among their softness, on account of the polenta. I have seen many versions & many various sizes.

Ingredients

Makes about 40

70 g (2½ oz)sultanas
2 tablespoons

Method

____Soak the sultanas in the grappa or brandy. Meanwhile, use electric beaters to cream the butter, sugar & vanilla until creamy. Beat in the eggs & salt. Add the combined flour, polenta & baking powder & mix together with a wooden spoon to get a not-too-solid paste. Pour in the sultanas & grappa & the pine nuts & work them into the mixture.

____Cover & r